I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money how you make it and how you spend it reflect your character.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
I'm not overly alarmist about it but I do think there are some worrying signs like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I know where I'm putting my money.
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams but that's another story.
I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
The only point in making money is you can tell some big shot where to go.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record but not promising that they'll put an album out.
A lot of people in the media and some everyday people really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory there are going to be people that cheat and there will always be ways to cheat.
Where large sums of money are concerned it is advisable to trust nobody.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses create jobs employ people and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
If you real desire is to be good there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now this very moment and just where you are.
I call crony capitalism where you take money from successful small businesses spend it in Washington on favored industries on favored individuals picking winners and losers in the economy that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism that's corporate welfare.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving it for by spending it in luxury you make them exert industry whereas by giving it you keep them idle.
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking but rather ideas If the ideas are good cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.